Feminist Frequency Radio is coming for your media. Each week, Kat Spada invites you to listen in on entertaining and stimulating conversations about films, games, and TV... from the latest blockbusters to classic hidden gems, and more. With special guests bringing their distinctly different feminist perspectives to the mix as they celebrate and critique it all—including media critics, entertainers, academics, and everyone in between—Feminist Frequency Radio is there to help you dig deeper into the things you love. Warning: Feminist Frequency Radio may significantly enhance your media experience. Created by Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency ran as an organization from 2009–2023, providing video commentaries exploring gender representations, myths, and messages in popular culture media. Now, host Kat Spada continues Feminist Frequency Radio's legacy as an independent podcast, with fun new conversations about entertainment that asks you to be critical of the media you love.
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episode 139: FFR 139: Enola Holmes
The Netflix film Enola Holmes introduces us to the much younger (and perhaps more brilliant) sister of the infamous Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes. The film is based on a series of YA detective novels by author Nancy Springer, and our heroine (played in the film by Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown) is a quick-thinking and fearless young woman who frustrates and amazes everyone around her in equal measure. We discuss who we think the intended audience is, and whether the film succeeds in delivering a feminist-minded moral to a younger audience. We also discuss casting choices for Mycroft and Sherlock, held up against Arthur Conan Doyle’s source material, and offer up some opinions on other recent adaptations.
Time Stamps:
3:37 - Main Discussion on Enola Holmes
42:04 - What’s Your Freq Out?
- Carolyn on the film A Hidden Life (2019) directed by Terrence Malick
- Anita on Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Azerbaijan
Links Mentioned:
- “Is Henry Cavill Too Hot to Play Sherlock Holmes in ‘Enola Holmes’? An Investigation” by Emma Baty, Cosmopolitan, September 24, 2020 https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/movies/a34149946/netflix-enola-holmes-henry-cavill-too-hot-sherlock-holmes/
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